English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Edward Sapir Quotes

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

Edward Sapir

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound. Jane Horrocks
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it. Lukas Foss
Gloria Stuart quote: "When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody..."
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. Gloria Stuart
I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now? Gerard De Nerval
Linda Fiorentino quote: "I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look..."
I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved. Linda Fiorentino
Irene Dunne quote: "Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go..."
Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace. Irene Dunne
Johnny Depp quote: "At Last My Arm Is Completee Again XD"
At Last My Arm Is Completee Again XD Johnny Depp
With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting. David Morse
I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. Peter Jackson
Clifford Stoll quote: "When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard,..."
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. Clifford Stoll
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty. David Korten
Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us. Tove Jansson
She was at the age when she looked as much like an overgrown boy as a girl. And on that subject why was it that the smartest people mostly missed that point? By nature all people are of both sexes. So that marriage and the bed is not all by any means. The proof? Real youth and old age. Because often old men's voices grow high and reedy and the take on a mincing walk. And old women sometimes grow fat and their voices get rough and deep and the grow dark little mustaches. Carson McCullers
Harper Lee quote: "I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything..."
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. Harper Lee
Audrey Meadows quote: "But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time..."
But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality. Audrey Meadows